The Green Man Revisited & Other Stories: Classic English Short Stories

by Roger Sharrock

This four-volume collection of English short stories demonstrates the excellence and variety of short fiction written in the English language during the 20th century. Each volume covers a different period and represents the most distinguished writers of their day.
The first volume, The Dragon's Head, covers the period between the turn of the century and the outbreak of the Second World War. No other collection of English short stories concentrates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192821903
• ISBN13: 9780192821904
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"

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The Greenman Revisited--Classic English Short Stories

This is one of four volumes of Classic English Short Stories that have been compiled to contain the best of English short stories written in the twentieth century. This volume contains the best short stories written in English in the 1960's and the 1970's by authors living all over the world. The book contains 20 short stories written by Chinua Achebe, Kingsley Amis, George MacKay Brown, Morley Callaghan, Elspeth Davie, Susan Hill, Dan Jacobson, Benedict Kiely, Bernard Malamud, Olivia Manning, Gordon Meyer, V. S. Naipaul, R. K. Narayan, Jean Rhys, Frank Sargeson, Elizabeth Taylor, William Trevor, Frank Tuohy, John Updike, and Patrick White. The book also contains a preface and biographical notes.